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Page 117
Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper
end and about three hundred yards wide where it met the road , the ground was
open . The ground in the depression was damp , and growing on this damp
ground ...
Beyond this depression , which was about a hundred yards wide at the upper
end and about three hundred yards wide where it met the road , the ground was
open . The ground in the depression was damp , and growing on this damp
ground ...
Page 148
I was running in the middle of the hundred - yard open ground and had gone
about six hundred yards when I caught sight of a white object , standing on a rock
at the edge of the forest on the left - hand side of the slope , and about three ...
I was running in the middle of the hundred - yard open ground and had gone
about six hundred yards when I caught sight of a white object , standing on a rock
at the edge of the forest on the left - hand side of the slope , and about three ...
Page 150
A complication as unexpected as it was unfortunate , for my leopard was too
close now for me to call , and as he had last heard me from a distance of two
hundred yards he would naturally assume that the coy female had removed
herself ...
A complication as unexpected as it was unfortunate , for my leopard was too
close now for me to call , and as he had last heard me from a distance of two
hundred yards he would naturally assume that the coy female had removed
herself ...
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| Title | The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag |
| Author | Jim Corbett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1964 |
| Length | 191 pages |
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